[elihu]

I think another big part of it is that DC switches tend to get expensive above 12V. Cheap AC switches work fine at higher voltage, because the arc is self-extinguishing as it passes through zero twice per cycle, but DC doesn't do that so you can end up with an arc that doesn't extinguish itself, which, aside from not turning the thing off when you want to, burns out the electrical contacts.

[dreamcompiler]

Now we have MOSFETS and IGBTs that can switch DC without sparks. I suspect most DC switching in the Cybertruck is relayed through these. (Except the main contactor and pyro fuse of course.)

[myself248]

And the contactor is usually switched with no current through it. The only time it would open under load is in an emergency, and presumably it only does that once.

Which is to say, yeah, it's a non-issue for pretty much everything. Even in the 12v realm, new BCMs have so few relays anymore, almost everything's done with onboard FETs and software.

[elihu]

And given that this is a Tesla, it wouldn't really have had many mechanical switches in the first place. Maybe the turn indicator? Which could happily run at 5 volts or something and blink the lights via CAN bus messages.

[Kirby64]

None, unless you count the physical buttons as 'mechanical switches'.

The turn signals on a Tesla don't even make the 'clicking' noise if the Infotainment is rebooting, because it's literally just a noise piped through the infotainment.